Body image and relationship to food
healing the trauma of diet culture and its impact on your self esteem and self worth.
i support Working through dismantling fatphobia and incorporating body positivity or body neutrality.
Your worth has nothing to do with what your body looks like.
Your body is just the vessel you get to experience life in ♡
The Basics:
The 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating / + read my summary here
Support, resources, education:
Schedule with me for intuitive eating and health at every size informed educational and coaching sessions. Read more about virtual sessions offered by Kelsey Riddle Therapy & Wellness by clicking here.
Setting boundaries with others
Check out this letter draft that you can use to ask your friends and family to accept you as you are, and to stop commenting on your weight, or body changes, or the food you eat.
Emotional and binge eating recovery:
Check out the Circle of Hope online community from A New Beginning. It’s open to anyone 18+ and offers a lot of great resources and support!
Health at every size:
Check out the Health At Every Size online community
Check out this academic article: Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift
Read this piece from Lindo Bacon: Fat is not the problem: Stigma is
Intuitive Eating:
Check out the Intuitive Eating Online Community
Intuitive Eating Card Deck: 50 Bite-Sized Ways to Make Peace with Food
articles and blogs:
Read If You Want to Talk About Physical Health, We’re Probably Going to Talk About Mental Health First by author Jes Baker
Body Positivity:
Body Positive Card Deck 53 Strategies for Body Acceptance, Appreciation and Respect
Groups:
research supported food and nutrition
Health, Not Diets: Health, Not Diets is a support and community page for dietitians and nutritionists who use the non-diet approach.
Follow Food Science Babe on social media. I love this account. She’s a Chemical Engineer/Food Scientist who is Clearing up the myths about food and the food industry with evidence-based information.
Alex: Anti-Diet Nutritionist who posts a lot of great information on her TikTok account
Dr. Uma Naidoo: Harvard-trained psychiatrist and nutrition expert whose research aims to understand the many ways in which food contributes to our mental health
Food for thought:
Look more into the terms “body positivity” and “body neutrality”. Read about these movements and schools of thought; look at the #hashtags on your favorite social media. Do either schools of thought resonate with you?
How do you practice them already in your daily life? How do you still still struggle?
Podcasts
Books
The Fuck it Diet by Caroline Dooner: Eating Should Be Easy
Health At Every Size by Dr. Lindo Bacon
Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch
Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison
The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Taylor
Body Neutrality by Ayla Ghibaudy: The Liberating Practice of Accepting Your Body Exactly as It Is
Things No One Tells Fat Girls by Jen Baker: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living
This Is Your Brain On Food by Uma Naidoo: An Indispensable Guide to the Surprising Foods That Fight Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, and More
Support Groups
Therapy
If you struggle with these any of these issues, therapy may be a great fit for you
Emotional eating • Shame related to food and body image • Food restriction • Fixation on diet and concept of being ‘healthy’
therapy focusing on food and body image may also help get to more root issues like:
Identifying, accepting, and healing from past trauma • Dismantling internalized diet culture and fatphobia • Nurture a healthy sense of self outside of body image or comfort in your body
Therapy will help you to:
See your body, food, and movement as morally neutral • Gain self esteem and self worth • Building a joyful relationship to food • Cultivate body positivity • Cultivate body neutrality • Learn more about Health at every size • Learn more about Intuitive Eating mindset
